Hollywood's Classic Sci-Fi Fixation
BY DAMON SMITH Posted on 12/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) That's enough punishment already
I was only mildly into comics as a kid, but my favorite character by far was the bitter and wounded Frank Castle, a man whose family had been murdered and whose search for vengance had turned him into a hard wired killing machine. So i was excited when, in 2004, ... read more Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) A little swerve for your Thursday
Not film related per se, but inspiring none the less. Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) 2009 Sundance Competitors Announced
The Sundance Film Festival has just announced its line-up for the 2009 competition in both the U.S. and World Cinema categories. Among the 118 narrative features and documentaries to be presented in Park City, 91 will be world premieres. Festival director Geoff Gilmore gives Variety his gloss on ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) A Night at the Gothams
Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Oh, it's good to be back from the Gothams.I would say around 11:00 last night, there was a moment where I was officially lost. I had wandered outside the after party of the Gothams and my inner brain workings weren't working like you would hope. At that moment I wondered what would become of me. Abduction? Death? Deathduction? ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) Let's Build a Fire on Reel 13 ShortsReview of Let's Build a Fire
Amazing that an experimental-type film actually managed to win the Reel 13 shorts contest this week (The other experimental film offered up by Reel 13 – Everyday – didn't fare so well – and rightly so). Some might suggest that LET'S BUILD A FIRE is a music video, but I ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Existence is suffering and a person who realize that real rule have to be lonely. and supposing drugs as medicine for that awareness and pain is completely an evidence for existence is a real sadistic occurrence. Posted on 12/02/08 by: delizade Comments (0 ) I want someone to come repossess my organs!Review of Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo: The Genetic Opera is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a better soundtrack and all the gore of a Saw movie. I was pretty much squirming with delight from beginning to end. Paris Hilton represents. We are gonna be doing midnight showings of this movie for years to ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: CineSlut Comments (2 ) I am adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limberSome people say it's wrong to go to the movies on drugs. They think it is disrespectful to the spirit of the cinema to show up to a Thursday night screening of Quantum of Solace on three hits of Ecstasy and a half gram of cocaine. They think breaking into ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (0 ) |
Hollywood's Classic Sci-Fi Fixation
BY DAMON SMITH Posted on 12/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) That's enough punishment already
I was only mildly into comics as a kid, but my favorite character by far was the bitter and wounded Frank Castle, a man whose family had been murdered and whose search for vengance had turned him into a hard wired killing machine. So i was excited when, in 2004, ... read more Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) A little swerve for your Thursday
Not film related per se, but inspiring none the less. Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) 
2009 Sundance Competitors Announced
The Sundance Film Festival has just announced its line-up for the 2009 competition in both the U.S. and World Cinema categories. Among the 118 narrative features and documentaries to be presented in Park City, 91 will be world premieres. Festival director Geoff Gilmore gives Variety his gloss on ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
A Night at the Gothams
Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Oh, it's good to be back from the Gothams.I would say around 11:00 last night, there was a moment where I was officially lost. I had wandered outside the after party of the Gothams and my inner brain workings weren't working like you would hope. At that moment I wondered what would become of me. Abduction? Death? Deathduction? ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) I am adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limberSome people say it's wrong to go to the movies on drugs. They think it is disrespectful to the spirit of the cinema to show up to a Thursday night screening of Quantum of Solace on three hits of Ecstasy and a half gram of cocaine. They think breaking into ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (0 ) 
Multiplex: Cadillac Records“Sex had a sound.” Yessiree, Trailer Voice Man, and her name was Beyoncé. Frankly, this Oscar-baiting biopic of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) has too many big-name personalities (Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, Cedric the Entertainer) playing too flippin’ many R&B legends (Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Big Willie Dixon) ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) 
Arthouse: Nobel SonWhat the world needs right now isn’t a hero, but someone who can parse this loopy, vicious, anything-goes film, part head case, part Maximum Entertainment Vehicle. It’s as if some mad scientist fed genre films into a cinematic super-collider, spliced in some clichéd gags (aren’t poetry readings and academic soirees ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) 
DVD: White DogWe’ll always love ’80s heartthrob Kristy McNichol, and not just because of her unwholesome turn as a summer-camp virgin who loses it to Matt Dillon in Little Darlings. Sure, her film work was mostly an embarrassment (seen The Pirate Movie lately?), and once Dynamite! magazine stopped calling, TV was probably ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: FilmCatcher5 Comments (1 ) |
Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Half Nelson is one of my favorite films of all time. It's not one of the stereotypical beloved teacher films. Also, Ryan Gosling who plays Dan the middle school history teacher with a harsh drug addiction, is totally hot. Dan wants to change the world, he wants to inspire his ... read more Posted on 01/31/08 by: lilard Comments (0 ) What is: Connection and Disparity in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer
Review of Sleep Dealer
Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer combines what was and what will be and brilliantly shows us what “is.” In this original brand of science fiction, Rivera shows us a future that takes into account current political discord over the Mexican–U.S. border as well as the all-too-believable next steps in the existing ... read more Posted on 01/30/08 by: hollystarley Comments (0 ) The Orphanage Was Outstanding
Review of The Orphanage
*Forewarning: this review contains movie spoilers* From the director of Pan’s Labyrinth comes another moving and haunting tale of supernatural powers and youthful imagination. Not only was this film disturbing and frightening in certain scenes, it portrayed the real-life horror of missing and losing a child. Guillermo del Toro seems ... read more Posted on 01/29/08 by: Penny Kim Comments (0 ) Raul Ruiz's excessively expressionistic film just winds up a jumbled mess
Review of Klimt
by Zachary Wigon It’s hardly original to point out that, in works of art, the division between form and content is a porous one. There are numerous films – many of them excellent – wherein the style and formal choices made exert a strong influence on how the narrative, characters and ... read more Posted on 01/29/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Feel-good biopic fails to reach beyond the level of facile sentimentality
Review of Music Within
by Zachary Wigon There’s something to be said for formulas. When formulas work, they work. This goes without saying in the realm of science. In the realm of art, the success or failure of a formula is given a bit more variability. One wants to follow the formula closely enough that ... read more Posted on 01/29/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Sayles soaks his paean to the blues in Southern mythology
Review of Honeydripper
by Zachary Wigon The blind guitar player. The runaway train-hopper. The drunken knife fight. The last chance at saving the establishment. They're all elements of folklore and mythology, be it Southern blues mythology (the first three) or cinematic mythology (the last one). How many films have we seen where a proprietor ... read more Posted on 01/29/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Mungiu's "Abortion" Drama Is A High-Water Mark Of The Romanian New Wave
Review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
by Zachary Wigon It's no illusion that the Romanian film world has been thriving as of late. Two years ago, The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu was brought to New York and opened to significant critical acclaim. This past year marked the release of 12:08 East Of Bucharest, another Romanian film that ... read more Posted on 01/29/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Air I Breathe
Review of The Air I Breathe
The Air I Breathe is the feature debut by director Jieho Lee. You can call him "G." G's direction impressed me. I am not a connoisseur of films starring Andy Garcia, but somehow this first time director got Garcia acting better than I've seen him act before. Brendan Fraser has ... read more Posted on 01/29/08 by: A Nick Comments (0 ) Runaway
Review of Runaway
This movie was absolutely amazing, and for sure doesn't get enough credit as it should. Bill True and Tim McCann were truly brilliant, not to mention the awesome cast. Aaron Stanford's talent is incredibly amazing, and shines soo beautifully in this movie. Robin Tunney absolutely nailed the role of Carly. ... read more Posted on 01/27/08 by: MelKatProductions Comments (0 ) Watching Salt Crystals Grow Is Not Exciting
Review of Casting a Glance
If you are looking for a movie to totally zone out to then Casting a Glance is what you are looking for. This documentary about 15 years in the life of the Great Salt Lake's Spiral Jetty, is nothing but a series of long (and I do mean long) shots ... read more Posted on 01/27/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Recognition, A Proper Accounting, Reconciliation, Redemption...Katrina Browne's
Review of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Director/producer: Katrina Browne Writers: Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan Executive producer: Elizabeth Delude-Dix Director of photography: Liz Dory Co-producer: Juanita Brown Editor: Alla Kovgan I solid information, from a stranger in the next seat, at another film, that Traces Of The Trade was picked up by PBS today. I am rarely ... read more Posted on 01/25/08 by: Oyeah Comments (0 ) Neil Abramson:Director, Eric Schmit's first screenplay (perfection)
Review of American Son
A Review From Sundance, by Dayle Record American Son Now showing at The Sundance Film Festival. This is an independent film, a uniquely American Drama, set in Bakersfield California. Directed by Neil Abramson, and Eric Schmid’s first screenplay, this is an intimate look into the lives of people, in both ... read more Posted on 01/25/08 by: Oyeah Comments (0 ) Bringing It To Our World
Review of Under The Bombs
Under the Bombs is a moving, heart wrenching film depicting the impact of the July 2006 Israeli bombings of Lebanon. Zeina is a wealthy woman who has been away from her home in southern Lebanon traveling with her husband. She is returning in hopes of finding her sister and her ... read more Posted on 01/23/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Wasted Talent: The Movie
Review of The Ten
David Wain, the writer/ director/ comedian behind the amazing Stella, brings together a big ol' gang of his friends for ten scenes representing each of the ten commandments. And yeah, it feels like a big ol' gang of friends sitting around, riffing, and trying to make each other laugh. I'm ... read more Posted on 01/23/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Growing Up Can Be Painful
Review of Riprendimi
Riprendimi, an Italian word meaning ‘good morning heartache’ is a film that delivers all the heartache, affairs, food and passion that one movie could possibly hold. It is a wonderful representation of all for which the Italians are famous. A young couple, with a baby, celebrating their third anniversary is ... read more Posted on 01/23/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Taking a Leap with Geoff Haley’s The Last Word
Review of The Last Word
“Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.”* So quotes Evan (Wes Bentley), a writer who’s found a unique, if morbid, way to combat the starving artist syndrome. Just such a leap is the impetus through Geoff Haley’s premier feature film, The Last Word, in which Evan, his love interest, Charlotte (Wynona ... read more Posted on 01/23/08 by: hollystarley Comments (0 ) Cloverfield Was Good, But Would Have Been SO Much Better Had I Paid Attn to Viral Marketing!
Review of Cloverfield
So, did the movie live up to the hype? Yes and no... maybe. I'm going to say probably a yes for those who took the time to participate/partake in the viral marketing of the film -- I knew some of the background and theories, but not all -- and I ... read more Posted on 01/22/08 by: finkies818 Comments (0 ) Cloverfield - It could have been so much better
Review of Cloverfield
Saw Cloverfield with friends last night, and with all the reviews being positive, I figured I'd give this one a shot. After the credits ended, I left disappointed at what could have been a great movie. I'm going to skip explaining the story, and just get to the things I ... read more Posted on 01/22/08 by: Rowgun Comments (0 ) Woody's Latest May Be His Darkest Yet
Review of Cassandra's Dream
by Zachary Wigon Full disclosure: Woody Allen is one of my absolute favorite filmmakers, so anyone looking for a relatively "objective" review should look no further. That being said, I can't say Cassandra's Dream is one of the Woodman's stronger films, although it certainly is interesting when viewed in concert with ... read more Posted on 01/22/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) I can't remember what i was supposed to like about this film
Review of Memento
You know those plays that intentionally bore you to death to make a point about the existential futility of life? Take WAITING FOR GODOT, which makes its audience sit there scratching their heads wondering why they need to watch two pathetic old hobos talk under a tree about nothing for ... read more Posted on 01/21/08 by: filbertguy Comments (0 ) Sweet Mystery of Life
Review of Megane
Imagine watching a film that leaves you feeling refreshed as though you just had the most wonderful vacation. That is Megane, a Japanese film from director Naoko Ogigami. This sleeper of a film focuses on Takeo, who comes to an island for what would appear to be a very needed ... read more Posted on 01/21/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) How Much Secrecy is Too Much?
Review of Secrecy
This is the first film that Geoffrey Gilmore (Sundance Festival Director) chose for this year’s film festival. It is quite easy to understand why. Secrecy enlightens the viewer as to the history of classification in our government starting with the Manhattan Project, and then shows how it has grown in ... read more Posted on 01/21/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Michael Keaton's Directorial Debut
Review of The Merry Gentleman
Michael Keaton has expanded on his already illustrious career with his directorial debut, The Merry Gentleman. This is a quiet story about Keaton, who is a hit man, and a young woman, Kate, who has left her abusive marriage to a cop for a new life in a new town. ... read more Posted on 01/21/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) The Man Behind "Gonzo"
Review of Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s image is larger than life as was the way he lived and ended his life, fueled by booze and drugs. Described as a Jekyll and Hyde, Thompson bounced from being happy go-lucky, to living on the dark side. A man of strong convictions, he identified with ... read more Posted on 01/21/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Sir Ben Kingsley Reigns Supreme
Review of The Wackness
Flashback to the summer of 1994, New York City. Rap is hot, cassettes still exist, dealers are using pagers, and Rudy Giuliani has declared all out war on the dealers and homeless to try and clean up the streets. Enter Luke Shapiro, just graduating from high school, still a virgin, ... read more Posted on 01/21/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) U2 3D Rocks Your World
Review of U2 3D
Whether or not you like U2, there’s no denying the technology used to film U2 3D is some pretty cool stuff. But liking U2 is probably necessary if you plan to sit through the entire thing. Lucky for me, I love U2, and being at the premiere of U2 3D ... read more Posted on 01/20/08 by: Mark Hammerschmidt Comments (0 ) Sleep Dealer Hits Home
Review of Sleep Dealer
It’s not hard far fetched to imagine a world in which water is traded like oil and immigrant workers perform their labor from virtual factories across the closed border. This is the premise of Sleep Dealer, a new film by first-time director Alex Rivera set in the near future. After ... read more Posted on 01/20/08 by: Mark Hammerschmidt Comments (0 ) Bruges Vacation Gone Bad
Review of In Bruges
Take three bumbling assassins; add a lot of violence with a dash of farce, huge chunks of dark humor, romance, a dwarf, drugs and drug-induced visions of a race war, and finally, sprinkle liberally with the “F” word. Stir thoroughly and you have a compelling, albeit somewhat gruesome film, “In ... read more Posted on 01/20/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) It's Dog Eat Dog World
Review of Perro Come Perro
I grew up always referring to ugly or bad things as ‘dogs’. Given that, I should have thought twice about going to a movie entitled Perro Come Perro (Dog Eat Dog). Suffice it to say that Perro Come Perro es un grande perro. This movie from Columbia deals with guess ... read more Posted on 01/20/08 by: silent one Comments (1 ) Great Movie
Review of The Merry Gentleman
I just saw this movie at sundance and it was definitely an awesome movie! Posted on 01/19/08 by: ryanhumble Comments (0 ) Great Movie
Review of Good Dick
I just finished watching this movie at sundance and let me say that I really enjoyed it! I hope it gets distributed! Posted on 01/19/08 by: ryanhumble Comments (0 ) The Wackness is Dope
Review of The Wackness
Forget everything you knew about Josh Peck of Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh. The kid can act. In The Wackness (written and directed by Jonathan Levine), Peck stars opposite Sir Ben Kingsley and shows that he is a high-quality actor worthy of sharing the screen with the industry's most notable names. ... read more Posted on 01/19/08 by: Mark Hammerschmidt Comments (0 ) Movie of the year
Review of There Will Be Blood
Paul Thomas Anderson has not made a bad movie. I know it has been very popular to dislike him and even to dismiss his movies, but dig down and be honest with yourself: he has not made a bad film. Sure, he can be accused of being overly 'quirky,' but ... read more Posted on 01/19/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Horror-Comedy Fails To Reach The Level Of Biting Satire
Review of Teeth
by Zachary Wigon There is, without a doubt, a category of cinema reserved for those whose eyes are bigger than their stomachs, whose films are more ambitious than their filmmaking talent can handle. This category is populated with films that aim for the stars and land in the gutter, but are ... read more Posted on 01/17/08 by: FC Scribes Comments (0 ) Deserved winner of Golden Bear at the 55 Berlinale 2005
Review of U-Carmen
Deserved winner of Golden Bear at the 55 Berlinale 2005. Posted on 01/16/08 by: BlueSky Comments (0 ) Not what you would expect
Review of Zoo
Zoo, as a slang short-form in certain circles, is short for zoophile: a term used to describe those who's feelings for humans are slightly edged out by their, uh, love for non-human animals. Yeah. Zoo, as a documentary feature, looks at the case of one man who was killed in ... read more Posted on 01/14/08 by: Aaron Comments (0 ) Tom McCarthy Does It Again
Review of The Visitor
The Visitor is the latest film written and directed by Tom McCarthy who gave us The Station Agent. I really loved the latter, and had high hopes for this movie. What a relief, I wasn’t disappointed. In The Visitor, Tom McCarthy has once again given us a set of unrelated ... read more Posted on 01/12/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) |
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